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Research in the digital age
Dr James Baker, Digital Curator
@j_w_baker
james.baker@bl.uk
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Text attribution Greg Wilson, Two Solitudes, SPLASH 2013 (29 October 2013)
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Texts, corpora, scale
Literary scholars and historians have in the past been limited
in their analyses of print culture by the constraints of physical
archives and human capacity. A lone scholar cannot read,
much less make sense of, millions of newspaper pages.
With the aid of computational linguistics tools and digitized
corpora, however, we are working toward a large-scale,
systemic understanding of how texts were valued and
transmitted during this period
David A. Smith, Ryan Cordell, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Infectious
Texts: Modeling Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers (2013)
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dasmith/infect-bighum-2013.pdf

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Some background

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Why am I telling you this?

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Reading individual works is as irrelevant as
describing the architecture of a building from
a single brick, or the layout of a city from a
single church
Franco Moretti, Stanford

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 The nature of personal archive
material has moved from paperbased to electronic  diaries, blogs,
photos, accounts, emails,
correspondence and social media.
 Significant challenges in obtaining,
preserving and organising personal
digital information.

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The Mechanical Curator

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More than a fad

The emergence of the new digital humanities isnt an
isolated academic phenomenon. The institutional and
disciplinary changes are part of a larger cultural shift, inside
and outside the academy, a rapid cycle of emergence and
convergence in technology and culture
Steven E Jones, Emergence of the Digital Humanities (2013)
http://emergenceofdhbook.tumblr.com/

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Thank you!
Dr James Baker, Digital Curator
@j_w_baker
james.baker@bl.uk

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  • 1. Research in the digital age Dr James Baker, Digital Curator @j_w_baker james.baker@bl.uk
  • 2. Some admin You are free to: Copy, share, adapt, or re-mix Photograph, film, or broadcast Blog, live-blog, or post video of; this presentation provided that: You attribute the work to its author and respect the rights and licences associated with its components Text attribution Greg Wilson, Two Solitudes, SPLASH 2013 (29 October 2013) http://www.slideshare.net/gvwilson/splash-2013 www.bl.uk This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License unless stated otherwise. 2
  • 4. Texts, corpora, scale Literary scholars and historians have in the past been limited in their analyses of print culture by the constraints of physical archives and human capacity. A lone scholar cannot read, much less make sense of, millions of newspaper pages. With the aid of computational linguistics tools and digitized corpora, however, we are working toward a large-scale, systemic understanding of how texts were valued and transmitted during this period David A. Smith, Ryan Cordell, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Infectious Texts: Modeling Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers (2013) http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dasmith/infect-bighum-2013.pdf www.bl.uk 4
  • 6. Why am I telling you this? www.bl.uk 6
  • 7. Reading individual works is as irrelevant as describing the architecture of a building from a single brick, or the layout of a city from a single church Franco Moretti, Stanford www.bl.uk 7
  • 10. The nature of personal archive material has moved from paperbased to electronic diaries, blogs, photos, accounts, emails, correspondence and social media. Significant challenges in obtaining, preserving and organising personal digital information. www.bl.uk 10
  • 13. More than a fad The emergence of the new digital humanities isnt an isolated academic phenomenon. The institutional and disciplinary changes are part of a larger cultural shift, inside and outside the academy, a rapid cycle of emergence and convergence in technology and culture Steven E Jones, Emergence of the Digital Humanities (2013) http://emergenceofdhbook.tumblr.com/ www.bl.uk 13
  • 15. Thank you! Dr James Baker, Digital Curator @j_w_baker james.baker@bl.uk www.bl.uk 15